Steven Isserlis / Connie Shih -Das Cello in Kriegszeiten -BIS SACD+CD Grooves.land/Playthek

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Sonate für Violoncello und Klavier L 144

01. "1. Prolog: Lent, sostenuto e molto risoluto"

02. "2. Serenade: Mod?r?ment anim?"

03. "3. Finale: Anim?, l?ger et nerveux"
Sonate für Violoncello und Klavier H 125

04. "1. Allegro ben moderato"

05. "2. Adagio non troppo - Molto allegro agitato - Tempo I"
Sonate für Violoncello und Klavier Nr. 1 d-moll op. 109

06. "1. Allegro"

07. "2. Andante"

08. "3. Finale: Allegro comodo"
Stücke für Violoncello und Klavier op. 11 Nr. 1-3

09. "1. M?ßige Achtel"

10. "2. Sehr bewegt"

11. "3. ?ußerst ruhig"

12. "The swan"

13. "Jerusalem op. 208 (für Orchester)"

14. "Keep the Home Fires burning (Till the Boys come Home)"

15. "God save the King"

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Works By Debussy/ Bridge/ Faure/ Webern

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Cello In Wartime by Steven Isserlis, released 2 October 2017. This version of Cello In Wartime comes as a 1xSuper Audio. - WORKS BY DEBUSSY/BRIDGE/FAURE/WEBERN

As the centenaries of various events of the First World War are being commemorated, we are reminded of the great battles and the large-scale suffering. To imagine what day-to-day life may have been like in the trenches in Flanders is more difficult, however, 100 years later and with no living survivors of the war to bear witness. Poems and paintings can give us some idea - but, as this disc from Steven Isserlis proves, so can music! The main, more conventional section of the programme is a selection of cello works composed around the time of the war, by composers from three of the countries involved in it: France, Britain and Austria. This is followed by something rather more unusual, however, as Isserlis exchanges his 'Marquis de Corberon' Stradivarius for an instrument that was once played and heard in the trenches of Ypres. Harold Triggs, the owner of this so-called 'trench cello', brought it with him to Flanders from England - other soldiers, on both sides of the conflict, constructed their own violins, cellos or flutes on site, from ammunition boxes, pipes and whatever else they could get hold of. These instruments thus become a highly moving testimony to every man's need for beauty and solace and joy, even in the middle of a battlefield. With the delicate support of Connie Shih on the piano (and in fact even pianos could be found in the trenches, even if not concert grands!), Isserlis and his trench cello transport us, for a brief moment, to a trench near Ypres during a quiet spell between skirmishes, with soldiers resting, writing home, playing cards - and with the help of the music dreaming of a life elsewhere.

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BISSACD-2312

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